Awareness programme on mobile towers construction held

Telecom Enforcement Resources and Monitoring (TERM) cell director T Sreenivasan said the department of telecommunications will launch a national level web portal which will help the public to resolve their apprehensions over the construction of mobile towers.Sreedevi Chitharanjan | TNN | August 24, 2016, 12:15 IST

Kozhikode: Telecom Enforcement Resources and Monitoring (TERM) cell director T Sreenivasan said the department of telecommunications will launch a national level web portal which will help the public to resolve their apprehensions over the construction of mobile towers.

Addressing the councillors during an awareness programme organised by the Kozhikode corporation with the help of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India about the construction of mobile towers, he said the public can get details about the number of mobile towers, telephone operators and status of inspection conducted at mobile towers in the region by just entering the pin code of their respective region. The department will launch the exclusive portal within few weeks of time to help the public to overcome their apprehensions over the health hazards due to transmission of radiation from mobile towers,'' he said.

Presenting a paper on mobile tower radiation he said that numerous studies conducted by many organisations including the World Health Organisation and others have proven that the radiation from the mobile towers are not harmful to the human being. He said the public can approach the district level telecom committee headed by district collector if they have concerns pertaining to the construction of mobile towers. He said direction was also given to all the district collectors to publish the minuets of the meeting through the website of collector to keep the public updated about the new developments.

He said the Kozhikode district has 1057 mobile towers and the inspections conducted so far revealed that all the towers functioning adhering to the norms stipulated by the government. .

During an interactive sessions, councillors irrespective of party lines urged the TERM director to take the people into confidence and conduct classes to educate the public before allowing the service provider to set up mobile tower to avoid protests. They said lack of knowledge results public protest and protests were there in many wards in the corporation.